Housing Real Story

It is ironic. Australia was built on a bedrock of home ownership. Real estate is our favourite dinner party topic. Yet with public housing stock in decline, and a 15 per cent cut in federal/state funding since 1996, governments have failed to face up to the challenge of housing all Australians. The latest reliable figures (1996) show 105,000 Australians were homeless. And nearly 250,000 Australians are on waiting lists for public housing.
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